Quote from: doggieTattoo on January 12, 2015, 05:26:12 AM

There would be a margin of error of 19 posts per user per week. For hero members (under previous rates) it would work out to .0228 per user, and for senior members it would work out to .02 per user (also under previous rates). The margin of error would decrease substantially over time as it would become obvious that a user is exploiting this as their long term post page count is not rising quickly enough according to their post count increase.

There is no real reason to be deleting even 10 posts in a month (with a potential exception being sales threads, but even then you could increase that to 20 posts) so it would become obvious when someone is deleting this many posts and Stunna's position on default trust list would allow him to give negative trust to anyone clearly exploiting this exploit (which would be valid because they would essentially be scamming him).

The value lost from receiving the negative trust would greatly outweigh the potential gain from manipulating the system so people would have incentives to not do so

edit: people could potentially self report how many posts they deleted (approximately) in the last week so Stunna could adjust payouts manually for such deletions.

He could also check the modlog which would show how many posts were deleted by a moderator which would also give him a good idea when it is time to ban a user from his campaign

Yeah, on second thought, it doesn't seem like that big an issue. I agree the downsides of being caught trying to scam Stunna and getting negative trust wouldn't be worth the tiny increase in BTC. And if it happens so often that it isn't tiny anymore, then it would definitely be noticeable.

I do think there are certain situations where someone might legitimately delete 10 or even 20 posts within a month though. Bumps in the marketplace section are restricted to once per 24 hours and it is encouraged to delete your posts to avoid cluttering up the thread. Someone who makes five listings in a month and bumps/updates each listing three times would already reach very close to this limit.

Quote from: Gyfts on January 12, 2015, 05:27:01 AM

Sorry if this has already been answered but I was thinking of the point system for the posting. Do making threads count as the maximum credit for a post? I feel the logic behind it is that when you start a thread, it's pretty much guaranteed more views than a post on a thread. It would be pretty hard to abuse considering it's difficult to create a thread without reason or in other words "just for the free BTC". Plus, why would anyone go out there way to create a thread when they could substitute it with a post in the gambling section with ease. In essence, you compensate someone posting a thread for doing greater amounts of advertising.

Not a bad idea. I've made threads that got up to 3,000+ views. I doubt any of my replies got anywhere near this many views. Although there would be the risk of people posting spammy threads and cluttering up the boards but I guess that's a possibility even today.

Quote from: BadBear on January 12, 2015, 05:40:05 AM

It's impossible for a user to cause this bug on their own, that would be a waste of time.

Ah... I was under the impression that this happened in particular boards or something (or in some other predictable manner). Well if that's not the case then it doesn't seem like a very major concern.